Donald Trump on the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Donald Trump had this to say about the Russian invasion of Ukraine …

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00:00I have no doubt that President Putin made his decision to ruthlessly attack Ukraine

00:07only after watching the pathetic withdrawal from Afghanistan.

00:23The Russian attack on Ukraine is appalling.

00:26It's an outrage and an atrocity that should never have been allowed to occur.

00:41He actually made up a story about my phone call with the president of

00:46Ukraine, who by the way is a brave man. He's hanging in. He's a brave man.

00:49And I like him because, you know, during that ridiculous impeachment waste of time,

00:57and the Republicans stood by us, we were 196 and 0. When did you ever hear Republicans do that?

01:03But this was truly a scam. But the president of Ukraine said he did nothing wrong. He could

01:10have said he did something or he thought, well, I wasn't appropriate. Yesterday,

01:14reporters asked me if I thought President Putin was smart.

01:18I said, of course, he's smart, to which I was greeted with, Oh, that's such a terrible thing

01:23to say. I'd like to tell the two. Yes, he's smart. Putin is saying, Oh, they're going to

01:28sanction me. They sanctioned me for the last 25 years. You mean I can take over a whole country

01:33and they're going to sanction me? You mean they're not going to blow us to pieces, at least

01:38psychologically? The problem is not that Putin is smart,

01:44which, of course, he's smart. But the real problem is that our leaders are dumb.